The document discusses various elements of color including: 1. It defines key color terms like hue, value, intensity and discusses primary and secondary colors. 2. It provides examples of how different artists use color in their works - some use warm/cool contrasts, complementaries for depth, arbitrary color for emotion, and monochromatic schemes. 3. Color can be used descriptively, decoratively, emotionally, and symbolically in artworks.

1. An Element of Art

2. COLOUR WHEEL
HUE VALUE
Refers to The lightness
the names or darkness of
of colours a colour
PRIMARY INTENSITY
Red
The purity of
Yellow
a hue
Blue
SECONDARY Orange Violet Green

3. SANDY
SCHIMMEL
Communication Pink and Yellow
COMPLIMENTARY
Colours opposite on
the colour wheel
Orange & Blue
Green & Red
Enhance each other
when placed
together

4. AUGUSTE RENOIR
Fruits from the Midi, 1881
Cool colours
contrast with Warm colours
warm colours project
forward, Cool
colours
Dark forms recede
have contrast
against
lightness.
White is a
highlight
Complementary colours show depth
and volume for example the shadow of
a green apple will contain some red.

5. Franz
Marc
The Large
Blue
Horses
1911
• Arbitrary Colour has no realistic or natural relation to the object that
is depicted but may have emotional or expressive significance
• Complementary Colours make each other appear brighter and
more intense when placed next to each other.

7. Gustav Kimt
Judith,1909
• Decorative use
of colour
Howard
Arkley

8. Tom Roberts
Shearing the Rams,1890
• Descriptive
colour used to
suggest the hot
dry dusty
atmosphere

9. Janet Laurence
Verdant Studio 2003
• Cool colour
• Monochromatic:
various values
of the same hue
– dark to light
• White to create
emphasis
• Secondary
colour

10. Jeffrey Smart
Study for Holiday
• Warm colours
dominant
• Blue is
complementary
and used to
highlight

11. Vincent van Gogh
Sunflowers, 1888
• Emotional use of
colour to express
feelings about a
subject rather than to
describe
• ‘Instead of trying to
reproduce exactly what I
see before my eyes, I use
colour more arbitrarily to
express myself forcibly.’
- Vincent van Gogh

12. Pablo Picasso
The Tragedy,1903 (Blue Period)
• Symbolic colour
used to suggest
the sombre mood
and sadness
• Monochromatic
colour scheme

13. ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
• Natural hues
• Range of shades
• White used to
highlight
• Cool colours